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The term "great power" has only been used in historiography and political science since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. [1]Lord Castlereagh, the British Foreign Secretary, first used the term in its diplomatic context in 1814 in reference to the Treaty of Chaumont.
Bamana Empire: 1712: 1861: 149 Belgian Colonial Empire: 1908: 1962: 55 Bengal Sultanate: 1352: 1576: 209 Benin Empire: 1180: 1897: 717 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State 1911 1924 7 (broken up from 1915 to 1921) Bornu Empire: 1380: 1893: 513 Empire of Brazil: 1822: 1889: 67 Britannic Empire: 286: 296: 10 British Empire: 1583: 1997: ...
Empire Empire population as percentage of world population [41] Year [41] Qing dynasty: 37 1800: Northern Song dynasty: 33 1100: Western Han dynasty: 32 1: Mongol Empire: 31 1290: Roman Empire: 30 150: Jin dynasty (266–420) 28 280: Ming dynasty: 28 1600: Qin dynasty: 24 220 BC: Mughal Empire: 24 1700: Tang dynasty: 23 900: Delhi Sultanate: 23 ...
It was one of the most powerful empires of the early modern period, becoming known as "the empire on which the sun never sets". [11] At its greatest extent in the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Spanish Empire covered over 13 million square kilometres (5 million square miles), making it one of the largest empires in history. [3]
The most powerful and best-known nation of these periods is the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 934–609 BC. [16] Shalmaneser III (858–823 BC) attacked and reduced Babylonia to vassalage, and defeated Aramea, Israel, Urartu, Phoenicia and the Neo-Hittite states, forcing all of these to pay tribute to Assyria. [17]
Persian Empire. Ancient emperors were in the subjects game — more people, more profit — and few players played it better than the Persians. According to Guinness World Records, the Persian ...
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2011), Very wide-ranging coverage from Rome to the 1980s; 511pp; Dodge, Ernest S. Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia (1976) Furber, Holden. Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (1976) Furber, Holden, and Boyd C Shafer.
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